LANTERN
\lˈantən], \lˈantən], \l_ˈa_n_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of LANTERN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
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A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
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A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
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A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
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See Aristotle's lantern.
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A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; - called also lantern brass.
By Oddity Software
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An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
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A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
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A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
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See Aristotle's lantern.
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A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See pinion (below).
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A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; - called also lantern brass.
By Noah Webster.
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See Aristotle's lantern.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A transparent case for holding or carrying a light; the lightroom of a lighthouse; a small tower on the roof of a building to admit and air.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A case for holding or carrying a light: a drum-shaped erection surmounting a dome to give light and to crown the fabric: the upper square cage which illuminates a corridor or gallery.
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To furnish with a lantern.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin.] Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, &c.— sometimes portable, and sometimes fixed;— a little dome over the roof of a building to give light a square turret placed over the junction of the cross in a cathedral, and having windows in all sides of it.
